What is the "cmd.exe" ? Variant 564718

Our database contains 1036 different files for filename cmd.exe but this page contains information about single file with specific attributes. If you want to see general information about the cmd.exe then visit General Information Page . You can also check most distributed file variants with name cmd.exe. This file belongs to product Microsoft® Windows® Operating System and was developed by company Microsoft Corporation. This file has description Windows Command Processor. This is executable file. You can find it running in Task Manager as the process cmd.exe.

Product:: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
Company:: Microsoft Corporation
Description:: Windows Command Processor
Version:: 5.1.2600.5512
MD5:: 83ba7e22bf529858a345f483d7e94c16
SHA1:: 837ea1cddaeae81ed7ef88f2a2c77f9832706487
SHA256:: 906281757a8fa60c78fe9e28b6ddb797d64b65c3558678a793e0330b07e2bd5e
Size:: 471040
Directory:: C:\Windows\System32
Operating System:: Windows XP
Occurence:: Medium

System Explorer Community Antivirus Report

This file was checked and tolerated by following antivirus shields :

Antivirus Name	Latest Toleration
360	2016-02-04 14:29:07
360ɱ	2015-10-13 00:16:49
Avira Desktop	2014-12-28 16:00:48
AVG AntiVirus Free Edition 2013	2014-05-22 19:41:56
avast! Antivirus	2014-05-16 06:33:34
Advanced SystemCare Ultimate	2014-03-05 18:04:40
Microsoft Security Essentials	2013-11-19 04:40:43
McAfee VirusScan Enterprise+AntiSpyware Enterprise	2013-11-17 08:21:16

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Reviews for different files with filename "C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe"

SAFErating from user Sabrina01 for file C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe (Variant: 541265)
absolut sicher - absolutely secure
SAFErating from user CMD for file C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe
SAFErating from user jpn_tm for file C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe
SAFErating from user MikeOne for file C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe (Variant: 19705621)
cmd.exe is the well-known system command-line interpreter - Windows Command Processor. It can be used for starting batch of system commands. Most often used MS-DOS commands are executing any executable file, changing the directory (cd), copy file (copy), delete file (del), rename file (ren), make directory (md), remove directory (rd). The process of running the CMD.EXE is described in this article : http://blog.systemexplorer.net/exe-com-bat-executables/